The first blow missed her neck and struck the back of her head.

It seems to have struck edge-on as though the blow nearly missed.

Whether the blow struck or missed, Vic could not see.

His blow missed the right-field seats by a matter of feet.

For the second time the blow missed its mark.

The blow missed, but she felt the cold air of its passage.

He swung his left hip back and the blow missed by inches.

That particular blow against me has missed, and those involved are in no condition to strike another.

Because none of these men had the heart to kill, not every blow was a killing one, and some blows missed entirely.

Alan's first blow had missed clean; but his second did not.